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Book Lists, FeaturesJun 4th 2018Happy Pride Month, y'all! While we can all appreciate the "queer canon," so to speak, that is popularized year after year, the new releases are what really thrill me. I am so excited to see the new titles coming...
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Book Lists, FeaturesMay 26th 2018Larry McMurtry's birthday is June 3, so we're celebrating with a list of a few of our favorite Westerns! Not all of these are traditional Westerns –– some subvert the setting, some the cowboy archetype, some the...
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, JULY 18, AND AUGUST 8 -- 7 PM
Over a century and a half after its publication, Moby-Dick still stands as an indisputable literary classic. It is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopedia of whaling lore and legend, Moby-Dick is a haunting, mesmerizing, and important social commentary populated with several of the most unforgettable and enduring characters in literature.
We will be working through the book in sections: for our first meeting in June, read pp 1-214 (ch. 1-43). For July, please read 215-439 (ch. 44-90). And for August, read 440-end (ch. 91-135).
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Finally! An engaging narrative history of the reptiles that once ruled the earth. Part epic scientific history, part real-life Indiana Jones memoir of globe-trotting fossil hunting with all its cultural and political pitfalls, this is a must-have for anyone with an interest in paleontology!
There are plenty of novels that are innovative and thoughtful as well as beautifully written. Then there are the books that push the boundaries of what literature can do, books that literally change your DNA as a reader. THE INVENTED PART by Rodrigo Fresan is just one of these. It's almost beyond description, but it fouses on a writer, his sister and the divorce of their parents. And yet, this description is surely a disservice. It's really about books (Tender is The Night, Slaughterhouse-Five, Naked Lunch, plus tons more ) and writers (William Burroughs, John Irving, Philip K Dick plus tons more) and music (The Kinks, The Beatles, Pink Floyd plus tons more). Along the way literature, pop culture and history are thrown into a blender but handled with the most capable and deft hands because the writing, the writing, is simply brilliant. Funny, ecstatic, generous and quite literally unlike anything I've ever read before, THE INVENTED PART is a warm-hearted journey through a brilliant imagination and what a novel is capable of doing.
Shepard, one of our best fiction writers, brings his signature intelligence to film in this collection that probes the intersection of cinema and politics. Originally written for The Believer during George W. Bush's presidential administration, Shepard covers films ranging from Chinatown to Saving Private Ryan to discuss what they mean to the present political moment. Ten years have passed since he wrote these essays, but now, in the shadow of Trump, they seem somehow even more relevant at charting the ways popular culture can be both solace and propaganda.
WOW. This book is an amazing, eerie look at the world as it could be -- and what I perceived to be perhaps a metaphorical take on the 2011 nuclear disaster in Japan. In this narrative, Japan has cut itself off from the rest of the world. Language, lifestyle, mortality... all are subtly different from the world we know. Tawada manages this uncanny imagined landscape with grace and a very delicate touch.
In this sweeping collection of new and selected essays, National Book Award-winner Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the tragic echoes of that history in our own time: the unprecedented election of a black president followed by a vicious backlash that fueled the election of the man Coates argues is America’s “first white president.”
Quips & Quotes
Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people –– the beauty within themselves.
-- Langston Hughes